· Private foundation
The Silseth Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $244k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELMBROOK CHURCH | $84,000 |
| ELMBROOK CHURCH | $32,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| FAITH BIBLE CHURCH OF NAPLES INC | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $20,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF CORPORATION OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION O | $15,000 |
| BROOKLINK INC | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $15,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| FAITH BIBLE CHURCH OF NAPLES INC | $12,000 |
| GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| SERENITY INNS INC | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
35 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BIBROOKLINK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
- GSGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +125%
FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +62%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $1k
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
Corus solutions is a center where innovative public health and allied programs can be conceived, tested and implemented on behalf of ima world health. ima innovations will pursue creative projects that expand and refine the agency's public…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Government Accountability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINK INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SERENITY INNS INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TELLING THE TRUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN K MACIVER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED LUTHERAN PROGRAM FOR THE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA REGIONAL COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Astronomers without Borders ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Silseth Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Southwest Florida Regional Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 14% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.